Community Brainstorm: Death

[Hyperion2010]

Ok, this will be the first in a serries of "Community Brainstorms."

This thread is to post ideas only. NOT and I repeat NOT, to discuss what someone else thinks. There are a bunch of bright people here with good ideas. So lets get those ideas out into the arean so that they can be considered. If people start evaluating ideas posted I will ask a mod to remove their posts, so lets keep it clean.

Ok here is your brainstorm promp:

What could be done to increase the fear of death in Red Orchestra?

 

[[CiA]Stiletto]

Stroboscopic full-screen flashes. Make people violently ill whenever they die, that'll do it.

 

[Smirnoff]

What could be done to increase the fear of death in Red Orchestra?

if you die, you have to sit through the loading screen again for 2 more minutes.

I think the fact that you respawn so far away from where you died....usually...that the "fear of death" is ok.

 

[Molnies]

I think each player should have a set number of re-spawns. Let's say each played can respawn 10 times per round, then he would be more careful since he would notice the effect of dying much more. There are some problems with this though. Some classes tend to die more times the others, TKs (if you get TKed, I don't think that should effect your numbers of respawns) - there's also a small possibility that people would get killed 10 times and have to spectade the rest of the round would simply reconnect and have 10 more respawns. I don't mind having long spectate times if I've been careless and died 10 times, but I'm sure it would improve the game and many people would be more careful.

EDIT: I think this should be a serverside option, and the admin should be able to set the numbers of respawns for each individual map, and maybe even class.

 

[CaptRio]

I think each player should have a set number of re-spawns. Let's say each played can respawn 10 times per round, then he would be more careful since he would notice the effect of dying much more. There are some problems with this though. Some classes tend to die more times the others, TKs (if you get TKed, I don't think that should effect your numbers of respawns) - there's also a small possibility that people would get killed 10 times and have to spectade the rest of the round would simply reconnect and have 10 more respawns. I don't mind having long spectate times if I've been careless and died 10 times, but I'm sure it would improve the game and many people would be more careful.

I like it!

 

[Crusher]

I like it!

Don't discuss the ideas!!!

A load scream when you die should do it, no one wants to die because no one wants to be deaf.

Nah, just joking, maybe louder bullet whizzes, or temporarly deaf, like the sounds seem far away, this actually happens to soldiers in war when under fire.

 

[D.a.L-UnteroffizierG]

Ok, this will be the first in a serries of "Community Brainstorms."

This thread is to post ideas only. NOT and I repeat NOT, to discuss what someone else thinks. There are a bunch of bright people here with good ideas. So lets get those ideas out into the arean so that they can be considered. If people start evaluating ideas posted I will ask a mod to remove their posts, so lets keep it clean.

Ok here is your brainstorm promp:

What could be done to increase the fear of death in Red Orchestra?

everytime you die you loose a point (not by team kills).... so cap-whores that die often cant get much points.....

 

[CaptRio]

If you stay alive longer, you could cap objectives quicker. It would simulate the battle experience, so more experience (the longer you stay alive) = faster cap.

 

[EGF_PeeGee]

At the most basic and pragmatic level, the idea is to kill the enemy more effectively than they kill you. I would have the individual score as +1 per kill and -1 per death. I am not talking about a KD ratio - I mean that if you kill 5 enemy and die 4 times your score is +1.

 

[Commierabbit]

The idea of +1 kill, -1 death would balance it. I suggest that you couldn't get less than 0 score from deaths (but okay for teamkills and whatever else) so that even a new player can always work up to get a positive score.

 

[Bobdog]

I still like the old idea of issuing a peripheral that shocks the player with 10,000 volts very time they are shot or die

 

[[5.SS]Strother]

How about when you die the screen flashes white and shows a picture of mutilated people with a very loud scream. That should really put the fear of death into people. Just imagine sneaking around on a dark map like konigsplatz and trying to avoid people and your really uptight because someone might come around the corner and you're really jumpy then someone kills you from behind and you got a half blown off face screaming at you. I know I'd be scared.

 

[CaptRio]

^^^^^
Lmao!

 

[Hyperion2010]

Good stuff guys, keep it comming. If you have even the smallest idea just put it here so that ideas (remeber, not reactions) can be compiled.

 

[myzko]

How about at the end of the map everyone would see how many times people died, like a highscore with people that died the most, then people can point and laugh! (that will make people fear of death!=?=!&%(#&)

 

[[5.SS]Strother]

No because that would turn a lot of people into stat whores.

 

[smokeythebear]

How about a good idea...

the longer you stay alive the better you perform in combat (better accuracy, more stanima)

im not saying for just one life but you would improve over a period of time depending on the number of kills and deaths, the range you killed at, objectives you helped capture etc etc...maybe when you die it takes a chunk out of the skills you earned, so someone who dies every two seconds would stay neutral.

of course the russians will get kudos for running in suicidaly

 

[[5.SS]Strother]

I sort of like that idea but it would take a while to code and some people would just sit in spawn untill they get to their desired level. To be frank, I like my idea the best.

 

[Git R Done]

Heh how about banning the player whenever they die. That's the best bet for realism .




Failing that, make bullet hit sounds and bullet fly-by's sound more chunky and scary. Sounds have a profound effect on the human psyche, according to Discovery Channel.

 

[AardWolF]

how about the further you are from the spawn point the longer it takes you to respawn when you die. so people deep in the map will be more careful. for example lets say the map is broken into 4 zones, spawn-10 secs respawn, front line-20 secs, 3rdline would be enemy territory-40 seconds- enemy spawn-60 seconds. that way guys in spawn have more chance to break out because they're coming out more often and spawn campers have less chance to do so because their teammates take longer to respawn and help them. would even out fighting in the middle perhaps